Mercy on her right - hair in a shiny black bob, big vintage earrings in the shape of daisies, caution in her eyes. Lauren on her left - thick honey-blond hair and teeth so white they looked like a flashlight beam. They paused by the swing to take pictures and Alex chose one to send to her mom, the one where she looked happiest, the one where she looked all right. Mercy and Lauren wore strappy sandals, but Alex didn't have any and she stuck to her battered black boots.

Alex felt like they were a tiny army, three sleepwalkers in dainty nightgowns. Alex even put on a dress, short and black, held up by cobweb straps, identical in all but color to Mercy's and Lauren's. She'd created a kind of makeshift canopy over her bed in blue tulle that made the whole place feel glamorous.īut Mercy and Lauren wanted to go out, so they went out. Mercy's side was already elaborately turned out in art prints and strips of poetry in Chinese characters collaged with fashion illustrations. Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.She wanted to stay in that night, catch up on rest, finish hanging posters in her room. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents.

Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.įorbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back.

Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent.įind a gateway to the underworld.

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